Marguerite de l’Aigle

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 25 May 1141.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Martínez de Aguirre (p. 268) and by Pérez de Ciriza.

Relationships

Father: Gilbert de l’Aigle.

This relationship is given by Pérez de Ciriza, by Salazar y Acha (p. 102), by Thompson (p. 184), and by Martínez de Aguirre (p. 274).

Mother: Juliane du Perche.

This relationship is given by Pérez de Ciriza, by Salazar y Acha (p. 102), by Thompson (p. 184), and by Martínez de Aguirre (p. 274).

Spouse: García VI “el Restaurador", king of Navarre. Married about 1130.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 102), by Pérez de Ciriza, by Thompson (p. 184), and by Martínez de Aguirre

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sancho VI “el Sabio” (1132 - 27 June 1194), king of Navarre, married Sancha de Castilla.

Blanca (about 1133 - 12 August 1156), married Sancho III “el Deseado”, king of Castile.

Margarita (about 1135 - 1182) married Guillaume I “le Mauvais”, king of Sicily.

Evidence

Alberic of Trois Fontaines (p. 794) records Marguerite's relationship with her husband and mother : "...Secunda soror Beatrix nomine Rotroldo comiti de Pertico peperit comitem Rotroldum et Margaretam de Noveburgo in Normannia, cuius filia Juliana de Aquila fuit mater regine Navarrorum."

References

Alberic of Trois Fontaines. Chronicle. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores (in Folio), volume 23, pp. 631-950.

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

LoPrete, Kimberly A. Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c. 1067 - 1137) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).

Martínez de Aguirre, Javier. “Margarita de l’Aigle & Urraca la Asturiana” in Reinas de Navarra (Julia Pavón, ed.), (Madrid, 2014), pp. 267-297.

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. El Cid historico. (Barcelona:1999).

Pérez de Ciriza, Luis Javier Fortún. "Margarita d L’Aigle," in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).

Thompson, Kathleen. "The Lords of Laigle: Ambition and Insecurity on the Borders of Normandy" in Anglo-Norman Studies XVIII (1996) pp. 177-199.

Online Biographies

Margarita d L’Aigle (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)